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Ozarks Ranches Getaway
- in the Ozark Highlands, Missouri

Relax and experience the pleasures of country living in your own cozy cabin. Each season offers spectacular beauty and an abundance of activities at on of our  working family farm, nestled in the Ozark highlands. Located 1 hour from St. Louis's Lambert International Airport, you drive southwest thru beautiful country with rolling hills where interesting stops might include wine country vineyards, cave tours, or one of many antique shops.
It’s truly a setting for all seasons - meadows graced with wildflowers in the spring, summer respites in the cool caves along the towering Vilander bluffs, wooded hillsides splashed with autumn’s red, orange and gold, and winter’s intimate stillness after a snowfall on the country landscape. No matter what the season, the farm is a place for peace and discovery, far away from the pressures of everyday life.

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2006 Rates include accommodations with  breakfast and lunch, 3 days of riding (12 hrs). Each day covers different territory "Across Missouri".
4 days/ 3 nights $550   Single: +$125
Cattle Drive: +$50     Extra night  $185
Gratuities: 10 to 15% recommended
Tax: included
Open: All Year 
Meeting: Bourbon 
Airport: St.Louis 
Transfer:  Best to rent a car in St Louis
Tack:  Western
Horses:  Missouri Fox trotter, Quarter
Level:  From novice to advanced 
Pace: All paces acc. to riding level
Note: There are several restaurants close by, but you should have a rental car.
You can add a cattle drive and/or a hay wagon ride during your stay.



Rich in cowboy traditions and horsemanship, the RS Ranch is a 500 acre working ranch.  Surrounded by rivers, trails, and other nature, there is a wealth of cowboy activities to choose from.  Once you are at the RS Ranch, we help you design what you'd like to do on you cowboy getaway with us.  We can plan trail riding, roping lessons, horse-drawn hayride, sleigh rides in the winter, or just watch some of the day to day horse work on the ranch.  Roy might be shoeing horses, harnessing a team, or Tanya might be training a young colt.  You might want to fish, hike, bird watch, kayak or canoe on a local river, just go swimming and float on your back for the day, do some photography or sit and relax in a rocking chair on the big front porch. The RS Ranch has several breeds of horses - from Quarter Horsesto the smooth gaited Missouri Foxtrotters, that are sure footed to handle the hilly  rocky outlaws trails.  The "Big Girls", Percheron draft horses are used in day to day chores as well as pulling the hayride wagon and sleighs.
As the sun starts to set in the west, the horses unsaddled and turned out to night pasture, folks and the ranch dogs gather around the chuck wagon and cowboy campfire for the evening.  The smells of cowboy cooking fills the air as you listen to local Bluegrass musicians playing old west songs.  You are welcome to bring your guitar, banjo, or fiddle and join in.   It's cowboy life at its finest, eating ranch grub around the chuck wagon, a blazing campfire, good cowboy coffee, story telling or poetry, and roasted marshmallows at the end of a full day.
Accommodations: Private rooms in the main ranch house or in a spacious 2 bedroom log cabin (min 3)

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" When you think of the Missouri Ozarks and trail-riding you should think of the Missouri Fox Trotter. The Missouri Fox Trotting Horse was developed by the early Ozark Mountain settlers to provide a smooth, quick, riding horse that was also sure-footed enough to handle rocky, hilly terrain".